Mike Rowe Quotes
Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
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Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.
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Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.
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All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it's costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief.
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
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People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.
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Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
